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Afsar Zazai, the 21-year-old wicketkeeper batsman, and 18-year-old batsman Usman Ghani have been picked in Afghanistan’s squad for the 2015 World Cup

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Dec-2014Afsar Zazai, the 21-year-old wicketkeeper batsman, and 18-year-old batsman Usman Ghani have been picked in Afghanistan’s squad for the 2015 World Cup, the side’s maiden appearance at the tournament. Wicketkeeper-batsman Shafiqullah has been named among the four standbys for the squad, which will be led by captain Mohammad Nabi.Zazai had made his ODI debut for Afganistan in the recent four-match series against UAE where he kept wicket in all games, even with Shafiqullah in the XI. Ghani, who also made his debut earlier this year, has scored 316 ODI runs, including a century against Zimbabwe in July, one of two Afghanistan batsmen to score ODI centuries in 2014.Mohammad Shahzad, the experienced keeper-batsman, is not part of the squad. Shahzad has not played an ODI since the Asia Cup in March.Afghanistan’s World Cup squad

Mohammad Nabi (captain), Nawroz Mangal, Asghar Stanikzai, Samiullah Shenwari, Afsar Zazai (wk), Najibullah Zadran, Nasir Jamal, Mirwais Ashraf, Gulbadin Naib, Hamid Hassan, Shapoor Zadran, Dawlat Zadran, Aftab Alam, Javed Ahmadi, Usman Ghani
Standby: Shafiqullah (wk),Sharafuddin Ashraf,Izatullah Dawlatzai, Hashmatullah Shaidi.

Afghanistan have opted for four pacers in the 15-member squad, with Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Aftab Alam and Hamid Hassan. The main squad has no specialist spinners and part-timers Mohammad Nabi, Samiullah Shenwari and Javed Ahmadi will be expected to pitch in. Apart from Shafiqullah, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Izatullah Dawlatzai and Hashmatullah Shaidi have been named as standbys.The selection meeting of the Afghanistan Cricket Board was conducted over two days and coach Andy Moles said there had been long discussions over the final 15.Moles said that the players who had missed out on selection had been given reasons for the decision: “For the players who are not part of the list, the committee has already given them strong reasons for that. They are also given suggestions to work on the areas where they lack or struggle.”

Twice during another absorbing day’s play at Woodbridge Road, Kent thought they were in a position to dictate terms – and twice they saw their plans ripped apart by an inspired Stuart Meaker

David Lloyd at Guildford 22-Jul-2014
ScorecardStuart Meaker has claimed eight wickets in the match to go with a half-century•Getty ImagesTwice during another absorbing day’s play at Woodbridge Road, Kent thought they were in a position to dictate terms – and twice they saw their plans ripped apart by an inspired Stuart Meaker, who is relishing every minute of his return to Championship action.At 316 for 9 early on the third morning, Surrey seemed in grave danger of surrendering a potentially decisive first-innings deficit of around 90 to their fellow promotion hopefuls, only for Meaker to make an excellent half-century at No. 9 while sharing in a situation-changing stand of 82 with Matt Dunn.But if Meaker’s batting was good, his post-tea bowling spell bordered on the brilliant. With Brendan Nash and Rob Key both well set, the 25-year-old quick bent his back still further to remove two half-century makers in the space of eight deliveries. From sitting relatively pretty on 164 for 2, the visitors were suddenly a startled-looking 173 for 4 with uncertainty written all over their faces.A couple of overs later, Sam Northeast went in search of a distinctly optimistic single after driving Meaker just wide of mid-on and was comfortably run-out following Darren Stevens’ understandable decision to send him back. Then, with the total stuck on 176, Stevens looked around in horror to find he had been brilliantly caught low down at second slip as Dunn joined his fast-bowling mate in the wickets column.It was a terrific passage of play. And while Kent regrouped sufficiently through Sam Billings and Calum Haggett to reach 229 for 6 by the close, they are only 239 ahead going into the final day with all outcomes possible on this fast-scoring ground.Kent will certainly believe they can get among Surrey’s batsmen in the fourth innings, having posed plenty of problems during the second. But whether they can find a bowler to match Meaker is the big question.’This has been a big chance for me’

“I was happy with that,” said a smiling Stuart Meaker after dominating the third day of Surrey’s match against Kent by scoring 53 and then taking 4 for 67. “But I’m not sure whether I’m happier with the 50 or the four wickets. I was a bit scratchy at the start of my innings and there were a few edges but I’ve had that done to me before as a bowler so I thought why not keep going.
“I was gutted to miss out on those last two runs [to give Surrey maximum batting points] but Matt Dunn and I had chanced our arms.”
And the wickets? “I was due a long bowl and it has been tough sitting on the sidelines seeing the other boys going at it. This has been a big chance for me to come in and I’m glad it came off the way it did today. I think it’s still alto play for in the game but if we can break this [seventh-wicket] partnership tomorrow we have a great chance of winning the game.”

This pitch has encouraged the quicks from the very start – offering pace, bounce, carry and movement. Indeed, umpire Rob Bailey mentioned midway through the third day that he had seldom, if ever, seen so many runs scored when the bat was being beaten so regularly. But having a big enough heart to keep pounding away when the wickets are not coming is another vital attribute – and one which Meaker demonstrated throughout this steamy day.He had missed a total of eight Championship matches – initially through injury and then as a result of selection policy – before being recalled to front-line duty on Sunday. A frustrated tweet a week or two ago indicated that he felt the wait was longer than strictly necessary but a four-wicket haul in the first innings here looked to be an even better response.Today’s runs were a nice bonus but not entirely unexpected because he made a Championship score of 72 as long ago as 2009. Meaker the bowler caught the eye even more, though.First, he made sure Kent did not get away to a flier by finding a couple of outside edges as Daniel Bell-Drummond tried to lower his bat beneath a lifter and Ben Harmison defended unsuccessfully. It was the later, nine-over spell of 2 for 33 that really rocked Kent, however – Nash snicking an attempted upper cut and Key finding slip after driving at one that left him.The pace was right up there throughout, so was the aggression and with Meaker consistently hitting the right line and length it was easy to remember why he figured so prominently on England’s radar a year or two ago.

Andrew Hall and Matthew Spriegel will leave Northamptonshire at the end of the season after not being offered new contracts as the county prepares for life back in Division Two of the Championship

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Aug-2014Andrew Hall and Matthew Spriegel will leave Northamptonshire at the end of the season after not being offered new contracts as the county prepares for life back in Division Two of the Championship.Hall, the former South Africa allrounder, has been with the county since 2008 and captained them between 2010 and 2012 while Spriegel arrived at Wantage Road from Surrey in 2012.Hall is Northamptonshire’s leading Championship wicket-taker this season with 30 scalps at 39.23 while he has also scored 556 runs at 26.47. Spriegel has also been ever-present in the side, scoring 494 runs at 22.45 and taking eight wickets 47.25.Heading into the final month of the season Northamptonshire face certain relegation, sitting 77 points adrift of Durham in eighth place having lost 10 of their 12 matches. The defence of their T20 title ended in the group stages and they also missed out on a quarter-final spot in the Royal London Cup.Northamptonshire’s chief executive, David Smith, said: “These are always difficult decisions to make regarding players futures, but they are always made in the best interests of moving the club forward over the next few years.””The club wishes to place on record its sincere thanks to both players for their commitment throughout what has been a difficult summer for everyone connected with Northants Cricket.”

Lou Vincent expects more corruption charges to be laid against him in the near future after the ECB took action in relation to alleged fixing in county cricket

ESPNcricinfo staff23-May-2014Lou Vincent expects more corruption charges to be laid against him in the near future after the ECB took action in relation to alleged fixing in county cricket.However, Vincent has denied that he has made any plea-bargins with the ICC in connection with his recently exposed testimony which has implicated games played in a number of countries.Vincent faces 14 charges from the ECB alone in relation to a CB40 match between Sussex and Kent in 2011 and a Twenty20 match between Sussex and Lancashire in the same year.”He will work through these and the process for dealing with the charges as required by the ECB,” a statement issued by Vincent’s lawyer, Chris Morris, said. “He further confirms the charges arise from the matters he has disclosed to the authorities, and he remains accountable for his actions of the past.”The fact of the charges, and more are likely, dispel any notions of a plea bargain having been done as unfortunately appears to be wrongly suggested by others.”Sussex also released a statement about the charges on Friday.”Sussex County Cricket Club is naturally extremely disappointed with the allegations surrounding the actions of Lou Vincent and Naveed Arif Gondal,” they said. “Sussex have worked very closely and co-operated with the ECB Anti-Corruption unit to help establish the facts of what occurred in the two limited-overs matches during 2011 and will continue to do so.”We believe that the education available to players and staff and the controls that have been put in place by the ECB and the Professional Cricketers’ Association put our game in a good position as we move forward.”The CB40 match in question was previously cleared by the ICC’s Anti Corruption Unit before the ECB reopened the investigation in 2012.On Thursday, Paul Downton, the managing director of England cricket, said that five county matches are under investigation but believes the problem is not engulfing the game.”It’s an enormous concern – match-fixing is potentially a cancer for any sport,” he told BBC’s . “I don’t think it’s as widespread as the recent press coverage has led us to believe. I understand five matches in England in the last six years are being investigated. It is something the ECB takes extremely seriously.”Currently there have been no charges laid against the 2008 Twenty20 match between Lancashire and Durham, which involved Vincent and during which Mal Loye, the former England batsman, has confirmed he was approach by him about fixing.

David Warner will miss Australia’s one-day tour of Zimbabwe in August and September as he and fiancée Candice Falzon prepare for the birth of their first child

ESPNcricinfo staff16-May-2014David Warner will miss Australia’s one-day tour of Zimbabwe in August and September as he and fiancée Candice Falzon prepare for the birth of their first child.Warner is currently in India for the IPL and after a home Ashes series, a tour of South Africa and a World T20 in Bangladesh, he wrote in a column for his website that his “batteries are slowly draining”. As a result, Warner will enjoy the extra time at home when the team flies out for the tri-series with Zimbabwe and South Africa, although it will be a busy time as he prepares to become a father.”Candice and I have our baby coming in September, so it’s fantastic to be able to have that time off,” Warner wrote. “Since Darren Lehmann came on board as coach he’s told us all that family comes first, and that’s a big thing because we’re on the road for a long time. So that any time a major personal matter crops up – whether it’s a family member being sick, getting married or having a baby – the exemption is there for you.”With the World Cup coming up next year and the fact that it’s an ODI tri-series in Zimbabwe, I would normally immediately put my hand up for selection. That’s because playing for Australia is what I’ve always wanted to do since I was a youngster and you never want to miss an opportunity.But that’s what happens in life – you settle down, you get married and you have children.”Lehmann said Cricket Australia backed Warner’s decision to skip the tour. “We are 100% supportive of David choosing to stay home and await the birth of his first baby,” Lehmann said. “It is an important time in anyone’s life and I am a firm believer that family comes first.”The tri-series is Australia’s first international engagement after a rare winter without touring duties. Their series begins with a match against Zimbabwe in Harare on August 25 and ends in early September. Warner’s focus will be to be ready for Australia’s series against Pakistan in the UAE in October.

Hashmatullah Shaidi contributed with bat and in the field to help Afghanistan Under-19s put in an improved performance against Pakistan Under-19s, in the second youth ODI in Lahore

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsHashmatullah Shaidi contributed with bat and in the field to help Afghanistan Under-19s put in an improved performance against Pakistan Under-19s, in the second youth ODI in Lahore. However, it was not enough to prevent Afghanistan from falling to a 17-run loss in the 45-overs-a-side game and Pakistan from sealing the three-match series 2-0 with one to play.Afghanistan chose to bowl and Pakistan were anchored early on, once again, by captain Sami Aslam. Aslam scored 71 – his sixth score of over 70 in ten youth limited-overs games – off 86 balls, with six fours and three sixes. He eventually fell to the offspin of Shaidi, but had set the platform for Pakistan to push on to a commanding score – they were 199 for 4 after 40. However, left-arm spinner Zia-ur-Rehman struck twice in the 41st over and medium-pacer Abdullah Adil did the same in the 42nd to ensure Pakistan were kept to 238 for 9.That Afghanistan got so close to their target was down to a half-century from Shaidi. Like Aslam, he anchored the innings, with 82 off 112 balls. Usman Ghani and captain Nasir Ahmadzai played the supporting roles with brisk 40s, ensuring Afghanistan were in the game till the last couple of overs. It wasn’t enough in the end though.

Meg Lanning produced the second-highest score in all Twenty20 international cricket to power Australia Women to an imposing 191 for 4 batting first, a total that proved way beyond Ireland Women

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Mar-2014
ScorecardMeg Lanning is now second only to countryman Aaron Finch on the list of top T20 scores•ICCMeg Lanning produced the second-highest score in all Twenty20 international cricket to power Australia Women to an imposing 191 for 4 batting first, a total that proved way beyond Ireland Women. While Ireland’s batsmen hung in there, they could not go at the required pace, finishing 113 for 7, 79 runs short of the target.Lanning slammed 126 off 65 balls, which puts her second only to countryman Aaron Finch on the list of top T20 scores. She beat South Africa Women’s batsman Shandre Fritz’s 116 to go to the top on the women’s charts, then went past Brendon McCullum’s 123 to go to No. 2 overall; Finch had pummeled 156 against England last August.Australia’s innings was built around two main partnerships: first Lanning put on 86 in 10 overs with Delissa Kimmince, then she added 83 in just seven with Alex Blackwell. That Kimmince contributed 35 at a run a ball and Blackwell just 12 at a similar rate shows the dominance of Lanning. She hit 18 fours and four sixes in all, to ensure both her strike rate and the team’s total were nudging 200.Several of Ireland’s batsmen were able to get into double-digits in the chase, but none could really kick on or make an impact on the required rate. A couple of run-outs did not help their cause, and pacer Ellyse Perry was accurate and incisive on her way to 2 for 17. Ireland finished the innings having scored at less than a run a ball for a second loss in as many games, while Australia registered their second win in three games with ease.

Alastair Cook faced a tough task just over a year ago, with England’s dressing room torn apart by bickering and the No. 1 Test ranking wrestled away by South Africa. Once again, in the final Test in Sydney, he has to rise to the challenge.

George Dobell01-Jan-2014Just over a year ago, with the dressing room torn apart by bickering and the No. 1 ranking wrestled away by South Africa, Alastair Cook assumed the captaincy of the England Test side.It was a tough time to take charge. The division between Kevin Pietersen and some of his colleagues was at its widest and England faced a daunting tour of India. By the time they lost the first Test of that series, it looked as if Cook may have inherited an impossible task.But Cook found a way. At first he instigated a solution to the Pietersen issue. Then, through the example of his second-innings century in Ahmedabad, he showed his team how to score runs in India. He led from the front. Ten months into the role, England were unbeaten in a series, had reached the final of the ICC Champions Trophy and had retained the Ashes and won in India.Now, however, Cook’s leadership is under scrutiny. England have not only been beaten in Australia, but there is a perception that Cook is the sort of captain who follows the game. The sort of captain who is reactive rather than proactive. The sort of captain who operates by numbers rather than intuition.But leadership comes in different forms. Cook may never be a great orator – David Bowie went through a period of cutting up words at random in magazines and forming song lyrics from them and sometimes it seems Cook takes the same approach with his press conferences – and he may never have the tactical imagination of Mike Brearley, but he is respected by his team, he is the youngest man in history to score 8,000 Test runs and, having taken on the job with very little experience, he is learning his trade in public.He admits he has much to learn. But, as he takes his team into the final Test of an Ashes series trying to avoid a whitewash, he feels he is improving and that some of the criticism is based purely on the results.”I do think I’m a better captain now because I’ve done the job for longer,” Cook said. “You only really learn on this job no matter how many times you talk about it to people outside the game. The only way you really learn is when you’re out there.”You get flak when you lose games of cricket whatever you do and we’ve lost four in a row. You’re going to get flak for that. Again, when you’re winning in India that flak doesn’t come and that is the nature of the thing.”I do need to continually look to improve, without a doubt. It would be very wrong of me not to do so. There’s never a fine art to captaincy; there are always people outside with different ideas as to what we should be doing. But Michael Clarke was getting a lot of stick when Australia were losing 4-0 in India, with people saying he wasn’t a good captain, and suddenly he’s winning games of cricket and he’s the world’s best captain. So that’s the world we live in and we appreciate that.”Alastair Cook faces the second big challenge of his fledgling captaincy•AFPLeading England over the next couple of years is likely to prove demanding. Cook accepts that an era is ending for the team that took England to the top of the world ratings and suggested as many as three new caps could be given for the Sydney Test. With such change to the team, he feels the importance and senior players and the current management structure become even more acute.”I think it is the end of an era. If you go back eight or nine months, the England team picked itself and everyone was very solid in terms of results. What’s happened over the last few months is that we know we can’t solely rely on the 11 or 12 guys we picked constantly. But that gives opportunities to different faces and it’s quite exciting to see whether those players can grab their chance.”There’s still a lot of cricket left in some of the more experienced guys. You only have to look at two players who have played very well for Australia here in Chris Rogers and Brad Haddin. They’re delivering the goods at 36 years old. So experience can still be a good thing.”We know what a good player Matt Prior has been over 75 Tests. He’s had a lean year and he’s the first to hold his hand up about that. His keeping has been pretty good for most of that time but we need him to be scoring runs too. He’s nowhere near the end of his career. He’s got to go back and prove that he’s the best wicketkeeper batsman in the country if he wants his place back.There was strong support too for Andy Flower, the coach who must help him reach fulfillment as a captain.”He is a very good coach. I know the defeat has happened in a bad way here, but we are certainly evolving as a side and a lot of players are coming in. We do need strong leadership at this time. Andy is a strong man and a good leader.”If Cook is to prove an equally good leader, he can begin by rediscovering his batting form. A half-century in Melbourne – probably his most fluent innings of the series – hinted of a return to brighter times, but Cook’s primary role in the side will always be as a batsman and his leadership will immediately appear more effective if he can return to the prolific form that played such a role in England’s success in India

Former India bowlers Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath stressed that Zaheer Khan’s form will be crucial to India’s chances of doing well in the Test series against South Africa, which starts on December 18

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Dec-2013Former India bowlers Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath stressed that Zaheer Khan’s form will be crucial to India’s chances of doing well in the Test series against South Africa, which starts on December 18. Zaheer, who last played a Test for India against England in December 2012, was picked for the tour of South Africa and is the most experienced bowler in a pace attack comprising Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma.”Zaheer will be the leader,” Kumble told . “He will get reverse (swing) as well. [I] Just hope he bowls at his usual speed. He shouldn’t drop his pace, shouldn’t bowl within himself. It would be good if he can knock a few wickets upfront.”According to Srinath, Zaheer’s effectiveness would depend on him bowling the right spells. “Strength and energy will be critical to Zaheer. As for line, length and strategies, he is a master at that,” Srinath said to the newspaper. “It boils down to his core strength and [about] him coming in for the right spells and sustaining that energy. Another core area for Zaheer is the way he guides the other bowlers.”Zaheer is fourth on the list of leading wicket-takers in South Africa, behind Kumble, Srinath and Sreesanth. In six Tests, Zaheer has 23 wickets at an average of 32.52.Kumble, the most successful Indian bowler in South Africa – with 45 wickets in 12 games – said that the spinners would have to deal with the challenge of additional bounce on the pitches and a softer, used ball.”It does not spin much but you do get bounce from the surface,” Kumble said. “The spinners have to take that into account when they set the field. The ball tends to get soft after 20 overs, so the spinners need to handle that in the middle overs. Between the grounds, there is not much at Johannesburg but Durban does a bit more. And if the game goes to the fourth and fifth day, the spinners will have a role.”Kumble added that R Ashwin, India’s frontline spinner on his first tour to South Africa, could exploit the rough patches created by the follow-throughs of the pacers: “I enjoyed bowling there, bowling into the rough especially against a left-handed batsman. With Zaheer and hopefully (Lonwabo) Tsotsobe bowling (both being left-arm seamers), there will be a rough that Ashwin can exploit.”Both bowlers stressed that the Indian attack would have to get their lengths right, instead of merely relying on the bounce.”The length has to be neither forward nor backward,” Kumble said. “It has to be a length where after pitching, the height of the ball should be able to hit the knee roll of the pad and if the batsman snicks it, there is enough carry for the catch to be taken. You can’t just release the ball, even if there is swing you need to hit the deck hard.”

Wednesday’s encounter could shape to be another meaningless dead rubber in a series already short on context, but Sri Lanka’s selectors have stepped in to ratchet up interest, if only among the host nation’s fans

The Preview by Andrew Fidel Fernando30-Jul-2013Match factsWednesday, July 31, 2013
Start time 1430 local (0900 GMT)Kusal Perera is likely to get another chance to open for Sri Lanka•Associated PressBig pictureWednesday’s encounter could shape to be another meaningless dead rubber in a series already short on context, but Sri Lanka’s selectors have stepped in to ratchet up interest, if only among the host nation’s fans. Sri Lanka have named two uncapped players and a young opener to the 15-man squad and chosen to rest three top players. The match will now serve as a trial for the generation coming through, while the youngsters already embedded in the side now have an opportunity to move closer to their preferred batting positions.Some experience has been retained in the top order, via Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan, who are the series top-scorers and its only centurions. But with both Rangana Herath and Lasith Malinga rested and Nuwan Kulasekara still unavailable due to injury, Sri Lanka’s attack now appears light on experience. The match may also be a trial for Angelo Mathews’ captaincy, who does not have a reliable bowler to call upon if the likes of Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers or JP Duminy begin to mount imposing scores.Some of South Africa’s second string have already been on trial for much of the series, but a 4-1 result will be a major disappointment, particularly if they are overcome by a green Sri Lanka outfit. Though their batting has caused them most woe in Sri Lanka so far, the bowling has not been consistent either, and the catching and fielding has been as poor as anything a South Africa side has produced in recent years. The idea of playing for pride is a cliché in encounters such as these, but despite the challenge of playing without key players in this tour, this group of players must now be desperate to prove they are better than they have shown so far in Sri Lanka.Form guide(most recent first, last five completed matches)
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South Africa LWLLLPlayers to watchDespite not having played the first two matches, Ajantha Mendis is now the top wicket-taker in the series, with seven scalps at 12.28. As ever, he is most efficient against batsmen who have not played him before, but in the fourth ODI, he also proved capable of exerting control in difficult situations – keeping a flowing Hashim Amla in check during the Powerplays, and then returning at the death to wipe South Africa’s innings out. South Africa’s batsmen must now be growing wise to his variations, and Mendis’ challenge is to continue to remain a threat.
Faf du Plessis has now collected four failures from four innings, and has epitomised the problems in South Africa’s batting in the series, as he has failed to provide an innings of substance when the game was in the balance. He has perhaps been unlucky as well – run-out by a poor call from AB de Villiers in one match, and undone by a smart stumping in another, but he needs some runs in Sri Lanka before he takes the reins for the Twenty20 series.Pitch and conditionsThe series has spat up four slow tracks so far, and the surface at the Premadasa for Wednesday is unlikely to be vastly different. After a week of rain, the weather has also settled somewhat in Colombo, though the forecast also mentions a chance of thunderstorms in the early afternoon.Team newsAside from Malinga and Herath, Mahela Jayawardene has also been rested from the side. With Upul Tharanga dropped, Kusal Perera is likely to get another chance to open for Sri Lanka, while Angelo Perera may play his second match in the lower middle order. Shaminda Eranga and Sachithra Senanayake may also get to move off the bench and into the XI.
Sri Lanka (probable): 1. Kusal Perera, 2. Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3. Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4. Lahiru Thirimanne, 5. Dinesh Chandimal, 6. Angelo Mathews (c), 7. Angelo Perera, 8. Thisara Perera, 9. Sachithra Senanayake, 10. Shaminda Eranga, 11. Ajantha MendisRyan McLaren’s right hamstring will be assessed at training before South Africa make a final call on him. De Villiers admitted on the eve of the match that South Africa had erred by playing two specialist spinners early in the series, and unless there is a raging turner prepared for this match, they are likely to retain their four-pronged pace attack. Whether Quinton de Kock will stay in the side as wicketkeeper, or if Alviro Petersen will return, is uncertain.South Africa (probable): 1. Hashim Amla, 2.  Quinton de Kock/Alviro Petersen, 3. JP Duminy, 4. AB de Villiers, 5. Faf du Plessis, 6. David Miller, 7. Farhaan Behardien, 8. Robin Peterson, 9. Ryan McLaren/Rory Kleinveldt, 10. Morne Morkel, 11. Lonwabo TsotsobeStats and trivia After Sunday’s hundred, Dilshan now has the second-highest ODI centuries among Sri Lankans, after Sanath Jayasuriya. Dilshan has 17 and Jayasuriya 28. South Africa have not lost an away bilateral ODI series since February 2010Quotes”In a series like this, when it’s a dead rubber, the youngsters will be free to play their game rather than putting any pressure on themselves.”


“We’re still playing against XI good players. Whichever team they are playing tomorrow, we’re going to take it as a very serious ODI game and try and beat them.”